[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote: [OT, but anyway ...]
>On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: >> For reference... >> The New Oxford Dictionary of English says... >> daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon) > >I don't have this dictionary, >and I don't know the meaning of these pronunciation symbols. Hence the link provided in the post to which you replied ... >So tell me: > the e in demon as in hate, deep or lemon, deep. > the ae in daemon as in hate, deep or lemon, Some have suggested hate, Simon's dictionary suggests deep. > the e in debian as in bed, hate, or deep, bed. (Derived from Debra (sp?) Murdock.) > the gn in gnome as the first part of knee, genius or gentle, The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not proper phonetic alphabet, but it should suffice ...), by analogy with GNU. > the i in variable as in like or pink, Neither; as in deep. (Derived from "vary".) > the g in integer as in get or gipsy, gipsy. (The following 'e' causes the 'g' to be pronounced like a 'j'.) > the i in inetd as in like or pink, I use like - eye-net-dee. (Short for InterNET Daemon, so I separate the 'i' and the 'd'.) > the i in init.d (the first one) as in like or pink. Closer to pink, but that isn't a good example word because the final 'k' (a velar, according to that FAQ?) modifies the preceding vowel significantly. 'pin' would be better. (Short for "initialization".) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
